lou: joining me now, the a-team. fox news legal analyst, lis wiehl, veteran political consultant, he's advised president clinton among others, hank shine cough, and from the democratic national convention in charlotte, james toronto. thank you all. let's start with, if we may, a convention that is having trouble with rain down there, james. this is the year of, well, weather for these conventions. you've got them slammed together, and mother nature's slamming them both. >> yeah, and i guess we're getting, actually, the same tropical storm here that was going, they thought it was going to hit tampa a week ago, has now moved up into the mid atlantic area. and i've actually found it wetter here than it was in tampa except on the one day it was canceled when i got absolutely drenched. >> are i like that the weather is bipartisan, this is great. [laughter] and aren't they predicting even a worse storm on thursday when president obama's going to be speaking out in the open? >> i have heard that, i have heard that they're t